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Will climate change make rice less nutritious?
As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, rice plants - the primary food source for more than 3 billion people - produce fewer vitamins and other key nutrients.
June 24, 2018
10 things about Martian dust storms
Mars' massive dust storms have been challenging - and enticing - scientists for decades. From NASA, here’s the scoop on Martian dust.
June 20, 2018
Tick’s worst day ever preserved 100 million years
A bit of amber preserved a drama from 100 million years ago, an interaction between a tick and a spider.
June 19, 2018
More wildlife now working the night shift
It's getting harder for wild animals to find human-free spaces on Earth. New research suggests that human disturbance is creating a more nocturnal natural world.
June 18, 2018
Kilauea volcano lava river flows to sea
Kilauea volcano's Fissure 8 has produced a large, channelized lava flow that's acted like a river, eating through the landscape, finally producing clouds of steamy, hazardous "laze" as hot lava meets the cold ocean.
June 17, 2018
From pulsar to magnetar? Or vice versa?
Since the 1970s, scientists have treated pulsars and magnetars as 2 distinct populations of objects. Now they think they might be stages in a single object's evolution. A new NASA ScienceCast has more.
June 12, 2018
How far away was that lightning?
When you see a flash of lightning, do you count seconds until it thunders? An atmospheric scientist comments ...
June 10, 2018
New Horizons is awake!
New Horizons is boldly exploring where no spacecraft has before. It's the craft that swept past Pluto in 2015. Now it's preparing for its next encounter on January 1, 2019.
June 6, 2018
When did humans learn to count?
Linguistic clues show how people around the world first developed mathematical thought.
June 6, 2018
Can you see better than your dog, cat, or goldfish?
How does your kitchen look through the eyes of a cat, fish, fly or mosquito? A new study compares our human eyesight to the vision of other creatures.
June 4, 2018
